Month: February 2025

In the abrupt decision to cut off USAID to hurting countries and vital programs, the United States chose the market over morality as a primary value.

In this episode of John Dear’s “The Nonviolence of Jesus” podcast, Dear sits down with Sr. Joan Chittister to unpack the Beatitudes as bold, countercultural ways of living that challenge …

“If this causes chaos, so be it. The more chaos there is in American society, the more people will be ready and willing to hand over the government to me. …

Spared the death penalty, the man who murdered an Ursuline sister 30 years ago writes to ask them for forgiveness. They give it, and transform their healing into activism.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Artists and cultural figures must be “custodians of the beatitudes,” embracing their vocation to create beauty, reveal truth and inspire hope in a troubled world, Pope …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ condition improved during his first 24 hours in Rome’s Gemelli hospital with tests confirming he has a respiratory tract infection and his doctors ordering …

Scripture for Life: In the Beatitudes, Jesus turns the popular meaning of ‘blessed’ on its head.

In the American Catholic Laity Surveys that began in 1987, U.S. Catholics have, for quite some time now, preferred to decide for themselves on many questions of morality, over giving …

By trying to be “all things to all people” — wanting to both affirm murdered missionary John Chau’s humanity and criticize the cocktail of motivations that drove him — “Last …